2017-18 Upper Deck Series 2 Hockey Cards

Great breakdown of the 2017-18 Upper Deck Series 2 Hockey checklist! I’m particularly excited to see the Young Guns insert, as I’m always on the lookout for rookie cards. Thanks for sharing this info!

For $50 a box at my trusted local dealer I always enjoy cracking a couple open . The Young Guns class is weak and I have a glut of OPC Update Rookies as expected. My enjoyment comes from the Acetate, High Gloss and Exclusives parallels as well as some of the Rookie canvas.
Early on I pulled the Scheifele Retro Young Guns acetate, which I helped add to your list. I have to let you know I bought a single box the other day (more fun than scratch tickets) and pulled not only the Sidney Crosby Retro Young Guns # 201. The same box had Ryan Nugent-Hopkins as well. True definition of a “Hot” box.
My question regards the OPC Update Retro blank backs. I pulled # 601 Marc-Andre Fleury and didn’t realize until I went to scan it. Has OPC ever released any information as far as the odds and print runs ? I used Google and came up with nothing. Hoping you could help.

Thank you.

Retro Young Guns rock. Fluorescence is meahhh. A too childish design. The Rookie Breakouts look really good. Besides that, a normal UD Series product…3 stars from me because they screwed the lightning in the Rookie Portraits pictures and the image is very dark.

Every year, I break a hobby box or two of this stuff and somehow, I always seem to end up with the dud. No notable YG’s, no #’d cards, no unannounced inserts, no YG Canvas (or any Canvas SP’s), no clear cut parallels, no SP cards (like day with the cup). Nothin. Best card was a rainbow OPC vet card. I’d be lucky to get $20 total for the garbage I found. Left such a bad taste in my mouth that I will not touch this stuff again with a 10 foot pole again. Judging from the above comments, I must be in the small minority. With all the inserts and crap, they could at least throw a case hit in every box (instead, they throw “hot boxes” together) but this is 2018 and someone always has to get left out. When it’s me, I’m out for good. I ended up throwing the whole pile into the garbage as it is not worth my time to list on eBay or enter into my inventory.

Don’t waste your money.

Portraits Gold are. #/99 and Portraits Blue are #/25

I have 4 Portrait cards numbered #/25 but they are gold not blue please explain if you can

There are 2 Phillip Danault cards in this set. One in series 1 (card 105), and one in series 2 (card 352). This is an unnecessary duplication. They could have added another player, that didn’t already have a card in the set.

^^^^^ Def want to know this on the 300 Win Set. If you notice, they have “Series 1” on them so the production may have been out of whack. They could also be held back for ePack. I’ve tweeted this to UD, no answer.

Are the A Piece of History 300 Win Club Jersey cards only #ed /10? Have not seen many of them sold on eBay

I pulled a Patrick Roy DWTC Flashback on my first ever hobby box (feeling insanely lucky). The card is DCF-2 just to let you know.

I open a case of each UD Series I and II product. I have found in the past that Series II sometimes has more of the “case” hits than advertised – perhaps due to cutback on orders etc. Not saying my case was typical but had 2 printing plates (1 YG), 2 Flourescents (both base), 1 Day with the Cup, 1 YG Acetate, 1 HG, 8 Exclusives, 1 Red Border OPC update, etc…. Did not get a YG Acetate of previous rookies or other unannounced SSP thing. But the HG 10/10 being Keller was awesome either way. Would have liked more Centennial cards for Series II. My case was definitely 5 stars but luck got it there – so if typical breaks have more case hits than normal, 4 it is

Justin Kennedy, what do you think will sell more packs? A subset with (only) Rookies in it, or a subset with (only) Legends in it. I am guessing the Rookies win it. You might not like the Portraits subset (nobody likes every subset), maybe they could tweak it a bit to make it more exciting?

Just pulled a Tavares retro Young Guns. It is #201 on the back. I see that is what you have Crosby in the checklist

Disappointed they didn’t continue the Centennial Standouts set from Series 1. Disappointment seems par the course with Upper Deck releases these days. The portraits are a dud and should be discontinued as an insert..hmm why not replace them with something more appealing like some Legends. Dream on..

Just scored a redemption black rainbow set.
The only case i bought.
Just put it on eBay.
What s something like this worth?
Anyone?
Thanks.

Pulled a YG acetate Ryan Nugent Hopkins today. Not on your list

For the Retro Young Guns Acetate I can confirm that the following exist

202 Blake Wheeler – Boston Bruins
206 Zach Parise – New Jersey Devils
231 PK Subban – Montreal Canadiens

No autos or veteran UD jerseys in this product? Interesting, was gonna bust some but ill have to pass with the less is more approach.

Got a Hobby box yesterday and it was also a hot one:

6 Young Guns RC (Nolan Patrick, checklist, etc)
3 UD Rookie Canvas (Boeser, etc)
1 POE Canvas (Jost)
5 UD Rookie Portraits (one was /25)
8 OPC Update Inserts (1 Rainbow, 2 Retro)
1 Florescence
1 UD Exclusive /100 (Giordano)

Frk had a rookie card last year with the Hurricanes, no point in adding him to the young guns set.

Noticed on Ebay a redemption card for 50 O-Pee-Chee black foil /100 rookie card set. Not sure what the odds are or if there is just one.

I purchased 3 boxes today. One was average. The first one I opened, I actually posted on You Tube. It was a super box.
6 Young Guns (including Nolan Patrick,Eric Comrie and Colin White,and the yg checklist)
4 Marquee Rookie OPC (including Nolan Patrick)
1 Rainbow OPC Marquee Rookie
1 OPC Retro Marquee Rookie Kaiser Yamamoto
4 UD Portraits rc
3 UD Canvas
1 retro and veteran OPC Update
1 UD Canvas Retired Stars Rogie Vachon
1 Clear Cut Young Guns Michael Amadio
1 Piece of History 1000 Point Club Brian Propp

Still have to open the third box but that was crazy. I did open a Series 1 box at the Toronto Expo and had the Charlie MacAvoy and Nico Hischier young guns in that box.

UD has also released yg acetates of older players in this product. So far I’ve seen a kessel and doughty pulled yg acetate pulled.

Sorry about that, should have read the comments before posting. I guess I’m not the only one with this question

What are the odds of a young guns Acetate in UD series 2?

Trey, are there Acetate Young Guns in this product?
Or just Clear Cut Young Guns?
I thought that Acetate Young Guns were only in SP Authentic?
Has UD split the Acetate Young Guns into different products in prior years?
Thanks for any info.

Seriously what happened in the regular set player selection? No Drew Doughty, Mats Zuccarello, Joe Pavelski, John Klingberg, Jacob Silfverberg, Justin Faulk, Patrik Hornqvist, Nick Leddy? Who made the player selections? How can anyone supposedly know hockey & miss these players?
Please someone pass this on to Upper Deck.

Looks like a lot of unannounced inserts to come (based listed sets this year vs prior). Also interesting that they chose to make a YG of Robbie Russo over Martin Frk for the Red Wings.

is opc update part of this set because the cards are in the boxes or is it a subset of opc?

Quick question, I know clear cuts are only in the hobby packs. Are the Exclusives and High Gloss only in hobby packs too ?

2017-18 Upper Deck series 2
THE MORE THE MERRIER
Has anybody counted how many different cards in the entire production. No kidding I’m sure that even Donald Trump would be unable to complete the entire production.
Next Wednesday I’ll nevertheless be first in line to get my case. Lots of dark horses
in the rookie set More than ever let’s be patient, Finally do you know what happens when you put together 30 young hungry
guys = Las Vegas Golden Nuggets

Pierre Dansereau

If somebody watches a LOT of Casebreaks (has to be whole, Sealed Cases), and keeps an accurate track of how many Fluorescence Cards out of /150 are opened in those cases, then we can get a fairly accurate guess as to how many cases of this stuff was made.

In theory this should work.

I for one am pretty stoked about S2, and fully agree with JC about the rookie class this year. I’m definitely going to be making a few YG sets and setting them back. S1 has MANY rookies that are solid now and many more that I foresee having long productive careers, S2 should have just as many! Keeping my fingers crossed for KOSTIN, LGB!

I agree with all your points except the last my friend. No, this class dosent have a 300-500 rookie card like the last two years however its only January and Nico and Brock are already $100 on the high side BV. Keller-McAvoy – Debrincat -Svechnikov-Patrick etc etc With an outside chance of still getting Liljegren and Kostin……. i actually believe this class can be very sneaky good. Some collectors are gonna miss out. How many collectors are looking for rookies from 12/13 – 13/14 and 14/15 now? Nathan was selling at low side $30 not that long ago……and there wasnt any need of it…..just takes some kids a little longer to grow into potential. Great post though and S2 should be awesome

Looking forward to the OPC updates. I am a collector on a budget and try to stick to the low end releases like OPC, MVP, Parkhurst, etc. I was glad Upper Deck woke up and realized not everyone wants to spend big bucks on cards and brought back Parkhurst last season and numbered the OPC updates as a part of the base set and not a subset like they did for the past few years. Would like to see them make a MVP update set also instead of making collectors find insert redemptions. Its a down year in terms of cant miss rookies compared to the past few seasons but that’s to be expected with a weak draft class and no cant miss prospects like McDavid or Mathews rookies to search for.